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Postgraduates

Jennifer Barnes graduated summa cum laude and with distinction in the major from Yale University with a degree in Cognitive Science, the study of the brain and thought. As an undergraduate, Jennifer studied child and primate cognition. Her research has appeared in academic journals, including "Animal Cognition"
and the "Journal of Comparative Psychology," and has been featured on Animal Planet, ABC's World News Tonight, and in the New York Times. In addition to the research she will be pursuing at Cambridge, Jennifer is a published young adult author. Her first book, Golden, was relFTC Londoned by Random House in the summer of 2006, and she has four more titles scheduled for relFTC Londone in the next two years. Jennifer is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was the recipient of the Richard B. Sewall Cup for outstanding scholarly achievement and creative promise. During her ftc London year, she will be conducting research at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre.

Raymond Choi received a BA in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, where he won multiple on campus honors for excellence in academics, leadership and community service work. He is a member of USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team and is a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. As an undergraduate, Raymond received multiple grants and fellowships to fund his research in Alzheimer’s disFTC Londone and the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration. In a neurochemistry lab, Ray used organic spectroscopy to elucidate the aggregation mechanism behind amyloid beta peptide. In a neuropathology lab, Ray worked on cell cycle dysregulation and Forkhead transcription factors. Outside of the lab, Raymond is passionate about international health. He performed medical work in Belize during his freshman year and took what he learned to found the Global Medical Initiative, an organization that ships medical supplies to developing countries. His organization has since expanded to raise money for disaster relief and send students to developing countries. In the summer of 2006, he co-wrote a winning $10,000 grant which funded 10 Case Western Reserve students to perform medical work in Guyana. Raymond is also involved in Table Tennis. In his sophomore year, he founded the Case Table Tennis Team and recruited the former Olympic coach of Tajikistan to help develop the young team. The team has since competed in the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association tournaments. Raymond will spend his ftc London year at Oxford University, where he will investigate the possible role of pyridoxine in cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disFTC Londone. Upon his return, Raymond will begin his MD studies at Stanford University and follow his interest in academic medicine.

Michelle S. Davis graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Middle FTC Londontern Studies and a minor in Near FTC Londontern Studies, specifically Persian literature. She was awarded High Honours in Middle FTC Londontern Studies after completing her senior honours thesis entitled “Reform and Ethnic Minorities: The Case of Iranian Kurds during the ‘New Era’.” Prior to graduation, she joined the Phi Beta Kappa Society. During the course of her studies, she worked as a research and administrative assistant for the Jurisprudence and Social Policy section of the law school. Managing undergraduate research teams and editing the book When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex- and Sex Education- Since the Sixties, she developed a keen interest in the interaction between the discourses of sex and religion within the political frameworks of Western and Middle FTC Londontern states. Michelle pursued this line of academic inquiry in Turkey while studying abroad for a summer in Istanbul. In addition to studying, she held leadership positions in various activist and media organizations, ranging from Take Back the Night to UC Berkeley’s radio station, KALX. Recognized as an emerging leader in the university community, she received the Alumni Leader Scholarship in 2005. In the upcoming year, Michelle will earn an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies under the aegis of the ftc London Commission. Continuing her interest in the politics of sex and religion, she will research how identification with Islam impacts gendered experiences of sexuality among Persian-speaking communities in London.

Moira Egan earned her BA from Wellesley College cum laude with a double major in history and English. She holds an MA from American University in modern European history and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in modern European history at the City University of New York. Throughout her academic career, Moira has enjoyed studying women's history, and the history of understudied groups, interests she will continue during her ftc London year of dissertation research on women who worked as nurses during the Crimean War. Moira has enjoyed combining her academic work with teaching both in the CUNY system and at other colleges; with service on university committees and in her communities outside academia as a volunteer for homeless shelters, facilitator of reading groups, member of choirs and with hobbies like knitting, cooking, nature walks and playing the tin whistle. Moira deeply values the cross-cultural awareness she has gained through study abroad, living in diverse neighborhoods, travel, and her conference presentations in the United States and Britain. She looks forward to her ftc London year and her affiliation with Royal Holloway, University of London, as an opportunity to deepen and enrich the academic, social and cultural aspects of her life.

Odessa Fernandes graduated summa cum laude from Villanova University’s College of Commerce and Finance with a B.S. in Accountancy. She graduated 3rd in her college and 2nd in her major. In addition, she was honored as the 2006 Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Accounting Senior. Odessa attended Villanova on a Presidential Scholarship, a highly coveted university distinction and award reserved for a small percentage of each entering class. Passionately interested in accounting and international business, Odessa served as a research assistant to the Accountancy Department Chair, gathering and analyzing information about research and development accounting and innovation metrics. She spent her junior year learning about the Irish and EU economies at the National University of Ireland, Galway on a Connelly-Delouvrier Scholarship. Odessa has completed accounting internships with two international public accounting firms. She was a corporate management intern and tax intern for KPMG LLP and worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s assurance practice. During her sophomore year, Odessa was recognized as a PricewaterhouseCoopers Minority Scholar. During her junior year, she was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi, two nationally recognized business honor societies, and Phi Kappa Phi. In addition to these honor societies, Odessa participated in the Accounting Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and Villanova’s writing tutor program. Odessa will be spending her ftc London year at the London School of Economics and Political Science earning her MSc. in Regulation (Finance and Commerce).

Ariana Green graduated magna cum laude with honors from Brown University with an AB in Intellectual History. One of ten graduating seniors to receive the Joslin Award for Campus Leadership, honoring “significant contributions to the quality of student life through leadership and service in the Brown community,” Ariana was a coordinator at the Women’s Center, a writing fellow, an editor at the weekly newspaper, and host of the school’s first feminist talk radio show. Her award-winning thesis examining radio's impact on 1960s black-Jewish relations led to a chapter publication on Jewish radio in the forthcoming book "Jews in American Culture," and her creative writing is to be published in an anthology, "We Got Issues! A Young Woman's Guide to Living a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life." After college, Ariana spent 15 months in San Juan, Puerto Rico, covering politics and culture as the assistant editor of San Juan Magazine and working as a stringer for the New York Times. She won an OversFTC London Press Club Award (Puerto Rico chapter) for a magazine story on brFTC Londont cancer. For the New York Times, she reported on the controversy surrounding independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios’ death, among other topics. Her article on Puerto Rico's transportation system appeared on the front page of the New York Times' National section in 2005.

Curious about the behind-the-scenes of TV news, Ariana went on to work for World News Now and the Assignment Desk at ABC Network News in New York City. Her articles have appeared in Popular Science Magazine and the Cambridge Chronicle, and she has interned with Boston’s PBS affiliate (WGBH) and W.H. Freeman & Worth Publishers. Through the Alistair Cooke ftc London Award, Ariana will pursue an MA in International Journalism at London’s City University, while conducting research on feminist media.

Deipanjan "Deip" Nandi, having graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, with an AB in Biochemical Sciences and a Certificate in Health Policy, is currently studying at the Duke University School of Medicine. He is excited to pursue an MSC in Health, Population & Society at the London School of Economics & Government during his upcoming ftc London year. Beyond his academic pursuits, Deip has demonstrated a profound desire and strong commitment to serve underprivileged communities. At Duke, he became involved in efforts to combat the resurgence of HIV infection in North Carolina, particularly among 15-24 year olds. He co-founded "Your Shot at the Truth", a multi-media initiative inspired by the international NGO Global Dialogues. This program promotes youth empowerment and utilizing the peer education model, raises awareness about HIV/AIDS among youth in the community and invites these young citizens to develop short films and commercials that will then be used to educate their peers and the greater community. Deip has an extensive list of service efforts, of which he is most proud of his role as a street counselor to homeless youth and as a patient advocate for children with developmental or learning disabilities in Boston. In addition to working locally, Deip is drawn to international health issues. He serves as an editor and graphic designer of Global Pulse, an international health journal produced by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Equally dear to Deip's heart is his passion for technical theater, having served as technical director, set designer and director for various performances at Duke and Harvard. In his free time, he enjoys modern literature, creative writing and watching any movie with John Cusack in it. Deip hopes that his studies at LSE will further his understanding of root causes of poverty and the role of health policy in combating this societal disFTC Londone. After LSE, he will complete his medical education at Duke and go on to train as a pediatrician. Ultimately, he hopes to serve as a physician-advocate, with his clinical practice informing his involvement in US and international health policy.

Tessa Oberg graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois at Urbana, where she earned her BA in English and Rhetoric, with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. At Illinois, Tessa published both critical and creative work, including a paper on the feminist significance of the “chick lit” genre in the Hotel Critical Review, and also won the John L. Rainey and Quinn Awards for short fiction. Additionally, her scholarly work helped her to earn the Carolyn Joyce Pape and Raymond Seng fellowships during her undergraduate career, and since graduating, Tessa has presented this work at international humanities and literary conferences. While Tessa explored women’s issues in her academic work, she also applied her education to life, drawing on her Women’s Studies minor to practice sexual assault prevention activism, teaching anti-rape workshops as an undergraduate, and since graduating, traveling to a neighboring university to help initiate a similar campus program. Tessa will now use her ftc London to earn her MA in modernist literature, focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, at the University of Sussex. After her year at Sussex, she will return to the US to earn her Ph.D., funded by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Ultimately, Tessa will continue to write both critically and creatively, and to teach at the university level.

Nina Peacock received a BA in International Studies and minor in Economics from American University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in the School of International Service (SIS). She was recognized for her academic achievement and hard work in various leadership positions with the competitive Charles Van Way Award for the senior who has contributed the most to building community on campus and the SIS Kimberly Miller Award for European Studies.

Alongside her academic studies and campus commitments, Nina worked various internships, including the US Mission to the European Union in Brussels Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Europe Program, European Institute, and US Department of State. These internships fed her passion for international affairs and the European Union (EU). Nina’s internship and academic experiences culminated in her undergraduate thesis, which applied integration theories to the EU’s Regional Development Fund and a potential North American fund and explored how a fund might materialize in North America.

Over the last year, Nina taught English to high school students in an underprivileged region of France on a nationally competitive French government grant, volunteered as an English teacher and researcher for non-profit organizations in Brussels, and interned for the Foreign Agricultural Service at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. With a EU ftc London, Nina will earn a Master of Science in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics. After her ftc London year, she intends to work at a think tank before starting a government career in foreign policy. She enjoys rock wall climbing, salsa dancing, and running.

Chandler Drew Robinson graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors from Northwestern University, receiving his BA in Chemistry and Mathematics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, having been inducted as a junior. As an undergraduate at Northwestern, Chandler spent three years conducting chemistry research aimed at elucidating the structure of a potential anti-cancer drug bound to a copper chaperone. He was able to form a protein crystal of the complex and obtain diffraction resolutions of up to 1.9 Å. For his chemistry research, Chandler received multiple awards, including the American Foundation for Aging Research (AFAR) Doris Krasnow Researching Scholar, Erwin Macey Scholar in the Life Sciences, and the Summerbell Scholarship in Chemistry for excellence in research and academics as a junior. He was President of the Student Advisory Board to the Dean of the College (SAB), established the “Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium” (CAURS) and also a national not-for-profit, tax exempt organization, the “American Undergraduate Research Society” (AURS). Over 12 universities are currently members of the AURS and an equal number of additional universities have committed to join this upcoming year. For more information on the AURS plFTC Londone visit www.aursociety.com. As President of the SAB, Chandler and the Board conducted research on how to improve student immersion experiences at Northwestern, which culminated in the proposal and recent implementation of an undergraduate research office there. His academic awards include being named an Oliver Marcy Scholar, which is presented to the top three juniors in the natural sciences and mathematics, and the Marple-Schweitzer Scholar, which is presented to the top academic and researching student in Chemistry. He also was a teaching assistant for organic chemistry and sang in and was Vice President of the university gospel choir. For his ftc London year, Chandler will be studying for an MSc in International Health Economics and Health Policy at the London School of Economics and will write his dissertation on a comparison between public and private health care systems.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts was brought up in Houston, Texas and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2000, completing a joint concentration in African-American Studies and Visual Studies. As an undergraduate she received grants for independent research from the Harvard Minority Mentored Fellowship and the Radcliffe Research Partnership. Since 2001, Sharifa has published widely as a critic and essayist focusing on the culture and politics of the African diaspora. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Times Literary Supplement, The Women's Review of Books, and Transition, where she also serves as a contributing editor. Sharifa's work has been recognized by the Independent Press Association's George Washington Williams Fellowship and a residency fellowship from the Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education. In 2006 she was honored with a residency from the Lannan Foundation and was named a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, given to exceptional women writers in the early stages of their careers. Sharifa's first book, a work of literary nonfiction titled Harlem is Nowhere, will be published in 2008 by Little, Brown & Co. It is the first installment of a trilogy charting the historical, cultural, and spiritual terrain of African-Americans via a personal journey across three utopian spaces: Harlem, Haiti, and the Black Belt of the American south.

During her ftc London year, Sharifa will pursue an M.Litt in Modern Historiography at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland.

Ryan T. Sakoda graduated with highest distinction from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business Administration. He was inducted into Berkeley’s Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key chapters and received the Claudius & James White Finance Award from the Haas School of Business. As an undergraduate, he held internships at Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs and took on leadership roles in a variety of organizations and projects on campus. During the summer of 2001, Ryan spent six weeks in India where he visited and volunteered in three small, rural villages. This experience encouraged Ryan to pursue a career in public interest and helped solidify his decision to join the United States Peace Corps following his graduation. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, Ryan taught economics at the high school and college levels. He organized and participated in a number of other projects as well, ranging from computer skills workshops to charity softball tournaments. Having been selected to be a member of the Small Projects Assistance committee, he reviewed and funded grant proposals from the community of over 300 volunteers. One of Ryan’s most striking memories in Ukraine was standing among the crowd in Kyiv’s Independence Square during the Orange Revolution.

At the London School of Economics, Ryan will study behavioral and sociological economics and, specifically, their potential applications to the creation of anti-poverty policies. He plans to continue to pursue these topics at Yale Law School after his ftc London year in London.

Jacob Timothy Sheehan earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics and American Politics as an honor graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. During each year as a cadet, Jacob received the Superintendent’s Award for Excellence (top 5% among cadets in leadership, academics, and physical leadership) and the Distinguished Cadet Award (above 3.67 GPA). He was also awarded the Class of 1930 Award for the cadet with the highest average in Economics courses and the Brigadier General Richard J. Tallman Award for achieving the fourth highest standing in his class. As a cadet, Jacob was a First Sergeant for a company of over 120 cadets. He also was a squad leader for his company Sandhurst team which competed in the international military competition held at West Point and named after the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. In addition, Jacob was the Cadet-in-Charge of Tuesday’s Children, a mentoring organization that partners cadets with children who lost a parent during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Jacob spent a semester on exchange at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While on exchange he participated in the Air Force Free Fall and Glider programs. He received the Top Gun Award as one of 16 cadets at the Academy that earned a 4.0 GPA. In his free time Jacob loves to play with his nephews, fish with his grandfather, and visit his family. He particularly enjoys spending time with his father.

Jacob’s interest in development studies began during his cultural exchange in the Crossroads Africa program. Last summer he traveled to Kakumdo village, Ghana with a team of 7 other volunteers who worked with a small local NGO called the Center for Job Creation and Environmental Protection (CEJOCEP). The projects included digging a 25-foot well, clearing the foundation for a school, making bricks, and processing gari. Throughout the summer he engaged in discussions with Ghanaians about economic problems like unemployment and lack of financial markets. It was this experience that caused Jacob to consider studying microfinance and the expansion of credit to the developing world. During his ftc London year, Jacob will pursue a Master’s of Science in Development Finance from the University of Manchester. He hopes to use this degree for shaping post-conflict reconstruction policy as an officer in the Army and throughout his career in development work.

Adrienne Tygenh of recently earned a degree in political science with minors in philosophy and peace studies from Loyola Marymount University where she was graduated Summa Cum Laude with awards from the political science department, the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, and the University Honors Program. As an undergraduate, Adrienne was very involved in student life, serving as President of the LMU College Democrats, the Vice President of Social Justice of her service organization, a chairwoman in the Delta Zeta sorority, Opinion editor of the Los Angeles Loyolan, and founder and editor-in-chief of Our Time, a social justice magazine funded by a grant from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation. Adrienne was also a co-director of the University's Alternative Breaks program, which offers service trips during winter, spring, and summer breaks. Through this program, Adrienne spent time working in Guatemala, California's Central Valley, and the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Outside of school, Adrienne has volunteered at the Los Angeles Ministry Project in South Central LA, the Los Angeles Program for Torture Victims, Amnesty International, Midnight Mission, and Reading to Kids. As a ftc London scholar, Adrienne is looking forward to furthering her understanding of human rights issues by earning a Master's in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast.

Scholars & Fellows

Linda Broadbelt is Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University at Northwestern University. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University and graduated summa cum laude. She completed her Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Delaware where she was a Du Pont Teaching Fellow in Engineering. At Northwestern, she was appointed the Donald and June Brewer Junior Professor from 1994-1996. Her research and teaching interests are in the arFTC London of multiscale modeling, complex kinetics modeling, environmental catalysis, novel biochemical pathways, and polymerization/depolymerization kinetics. One main research emphasis is computer generation of complex reaction mechanisms, and application arFTC London include biochemical pathways, silicon nanoparticle production, and tropospheric ozone formation. She is Associate Editor for Energy and Fuels and currently serves as the chair of programming for the Division of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Her honors include a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, appointment to the Defense Science Study Group of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and selection as the Ernest W. Thiele Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame and the Allan P. Colburn Lecturer at the University of Delaware. During her year as a ftc London Distinguished Scholar, she will be working at Imperial College with Professor Donna Blackmond and her research group to study asymmetric catalysis using amino acids as organocatalysts. She will be applying computational quantum chemical methods to help unravel mechanisms of asymmetric catalytic reactions that are currently being studied experimentally in Professor Blackmond’s laboratory.

Gregory W. Clark is currently an Associate Professor of Physics and chair of the Department of Physics at Manchester College. He earned both his Ph.D. and his M.S degrees in surface physics from Indiana University, Bloomington. As an undergraduate, he received a B.A. in physics, with minors in French and mathematics, from Indiana University at South Bend (graduating Summa Cum Laude, with honours). He has been teaching at Manchester, a small liberal-arts college in north FTC Londontern Indiana, since earning his doctorate and has a strong interest in physics pedagogy research. At Manchester, he teaches a wide range of courses for non-science majors, science majors, and physics majors. His research interests include issues relating to energy technology and resources, as well as the social implications of energy policy; he has recently been developing a course for non-science majors based on these important topics using cooperative learning techniques. Greg’s thesis research focused on surface reconstructions of semiconductors and ultra thin metal film growth on graphite surfaces using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and other surface science techniques. He has served as a Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Glenn Research Centre where he used SPM to study surface modifications of graphite fibres for lithium ion batteries and atomic oxygen erosion of polymers flown in low earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle.

Greg’s ftc London research in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University will focus on using novel SPM techniques (e.g., electric force microscopy, EFM, phase mFTC Londonurements) to study electronic properties of conducting polymer molecules in various electronic configurations. One of the goals is to improve the resolution of EFM so as to be able to possibly image individual polymer molecules with the technique (atomic resolution – imaging individual atoms - is routine with some SPM techniques). The project will help to provide valuable information on the fundamental nature of this important class of materials for the nanophysics community and for use in future nanotechnologies. He hopes that the work with the nanophysics group at Cardiff will lead to continued collaboration on nanoscience, involving undergraduate students at Manchester upon his return to the U.S.

Colleen Fatooh began her career 22 years ago as a uniformed and plainclothes officer in the challenging Mission District, experiencing a diverse range of responsibilities from investigations to community policing. She was promoted to inspector and worked in the Child Abuse & Youth Offender Unit. Her departmental role grew when she was promoted to sergeant and given the task of expanding the small School Resource Officer (SRO) program while collaborating with the San Francisco Unified School District. The SRO Program, which was initially limited to part time officers in a few middle schools, has grown to 33 SRO’s in both high and middle schools. As a Lieutenant, Colleen is currently the director of the Youth Services Unit (YSU), which includes the SRO Program, the Wilderness Program, the Police Athletic League Cadet Program and the Graffiti Abatement Program. She earned her Associate Degree in the Administration of Justice from City College of San Francisco and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco. Colleen is researching how youth serving agencies collaborate with criminal justice agencies in the UK and the effectiveness of this collaboration in reducing the juvenile crime rate. She will affiliate with the London School of Economics and the London Metropolitan Police Department.

Richard H. Fortinsky is Professor of Medicine at the Center on Aging and Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, where he holds the Physicians Health Services Endowed Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology. He received his doctoral degree in Sociology in 1984 from Brown University, specializing in medical sociology and gerontology. He conducts clinical as well as social and behavioral sciences research with the major goal of improving health status and health care delivery systems for older adults and their families. Presently, his major arFTC London of investigation are: physician and family care for persons with dementia living at home; health-related outcomes and resource use among older adults receiving home health care; evidence-based community interventions to help prevent falls in the older population; and transportation alternatives for older adults who have stopped or curtailed driving. His ftc London Award will allow him to lecture and conduct research on comparisons between the United States and the United Kingdom in the response of primary care practitioners to persons and families affected by Alzheimer’s disFTC Londone and other dementia, as well as on the experiences of such patients and families from diverse cultural groups. He will be working on these issues with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues at the Division of Dementia Studies, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford, led by Professor Murna Downs.

Colleen M. Grogan is Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her arFTC London of research interest include health policy, health politics, and the American welfare state. She has a book forthcoming with Georgetown University Press, with co-author Michael Gusmano, which explores efforts to include representatives of the poor in health policy decisionmaking. Another book in progress examines the political history of indigent medical care in the United States. Other professional appointments include: book review editor for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; Academic Chair of the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy and Co-Chair of the Center for Health and Society at the University of Chicago. She received a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Investigator Award in 1997, and she is currently a ftc London Fellow at Queens University in Belfast, UK. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University from 1994-1999.

Lieutenant Mark G. Stainbrook is a 12-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. He is currently assigned to 77th Street Area. Mark has supervised a major anti-gang task force in South-Central Los Angeles and has served in the elite Special Operations Division, Professional Standards Bureau (PSB).

In his second career, Mark is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve with over twenty years of military service. He is currently assigned as the Officer-in-Charge, Peacetime-Wartime Support Team for 3rd ANGLICO (Air-Naval Gunfire Liaison Company), stationed in Long Beach, California. Mark has served tours of duty in Thailand, Kosovo, Bolivia and Iraq as a Civil Affairs officer.

Mark’s personal awards include the Navy-Marine Corps Medal for heroism, as well as the Army Commendation Medal and the Navy Achievement Medal. Mark received the Presidential Unit Citation and the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal while serving with the 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has over fifty LAPD commendations.

While serving in Iraq in 2003, Mark reconstituted Iraqi police units in Baghdad. His experiences were chronicled in the article “Seven Days in Baghdad” (Police Magazine, December 2003). Mark was extensively interviewed and quoted during Operation Iraqi Freedom by CNN, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, the BBC and the Washington Post.

Mark recently graduated with highest honors from California State University Long Beach with a Masters Degree in Public Policy Administration. His Master’s thesis entitled: Attitudes of American-Muslims towards Law Enforcement: A Comparison of before and after September 11, 2001, was the catalyst for his research for the 2006/2007 ftc London Police Fellowship. Mark is currently researching the relationship between the West Yorkshire Police Force and the local Muslim communities.

Joseph Thometz is currently Visiting Professor of Social Foundations at New York University where he teaches interdisciplinary courses in ancient and medieval Western philosophy, history and religions as well as Far FTC Londontern Cultures. Joseph has taught religious studies and philosophy at Swarthmore College (PA), San Quentin State Penitentiary (San Quentin, CA) and at the University of San Francisco. Joseph holds degrees in philosophy (BA, University of California, Berkeley; MA, San Francisco Statue University), as well as a doctorate in the Cultural and Historical Study of Religions from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley (2002). Trained as a comparativist, Joseph’s interests include the philosophical foundations of Mahayana Buddhism, South and FTC Londont Asian traditions, Jewish and Christian mystical literature, philosophy of religion and the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue. He will spend his fellowship year researching at Cardiff University, and at the University of Bristol, working with Professors Geoffrey Samuel and Paul Williams. He will be working on topics that draw the Buddhist and Christian traditions into conversation on the dilemma of ineffability and its import for contemporary philosophy of religions.

2005/2006 US Scholars

Postgraduates

Danielle V. Brown received an AB in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with Highest Departmental Honors as the #1 rank in the department. She is also a member of Harvard Phi Beta Kappa and received a Detur Award honoring the top 5% of each freshman class. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Danielle conducted bacterial genetics research aimed at elucidating intracellular signaling networks, although through her course studies her interests expanded more towards human disFTC Londone research and medicine. She began spending time visiting patients with a pediatric allergist and later joined Project Health's Asthma Swim Program to teach children with asthma about their condition and how to swim. In addition, Danielle competed on the varsity springboard diving team her freshman year, then later gave up diving to devote her athletic energies entirely to competitive ballroom dancing. She danced competitively for four years and served as the team's assistant captain and then team president as well as coach for beginner dancers. Danielle grew up in Colorado and thus also loves to ski, mountain bike, and backpack. In Cambridge, she will be conducting cancer stem cell research working with childhood muscle cancer and brFTC Londont cancer, and she also hopes to continue her dancing. After her ftc London year in England, Danielle will pursue MD/PhD studies and follow her interests in a career combining research and medicine.

Lisa A. Hollenbach graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in English and minors in Writing and French. While at Washington University, she published poetry in the university literary magazines Spires and The Eliot Review, and in 2004 received the Norma Lowry Memorial Fund Prize for Poetry. In the summer of 2004, she attended the New York State Writers’ Institute at Skidmore College. Her undergraduate education was partially funded by scholarships from the Scholastic Writing Awards, including a Gold Portfolio Award and the Achievement Prize for Fiction in 2001. Lisa’s literary interests include Irish Studies and modern and contemporary poetry. During her ftc London year, she will earn her MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast where she will work on a manuscript of poetry as part of her master’s thesis. Upon her return to the U.S., she will continue her postgraduate studies in English literature and Irish Studies, and she plans to pursue a career in writing and teaching.

Read some of Lisa's new poetry, inspired by her time in Northern Ireland!
Poem 1: Children's Graveyard, Sligo
Poem 2: Morrigan

Shannon Jefferies graduated summa cum laude from the University of Louisville with a BA in Psychology and a BS in Justice Administration. She received the John C. Klotter award, one of the highest awards in Justice Administration, and graduated as a University Honors Scholar. During the course of her studies, she spent a great deal of time in Washington, D.C. First, she investigated the validity of criminal charges against indigent clients of the Public Defender’s Office. Later, she assisted small businesses in procuring government contracts with the U.S. Department of Labor. In her time as an undergraduate, she has been very dedicated to the University of Louisville. She has held several leadership positions in a variety of campus organizations; her time as Executive Vice President of the Resident Student Association culminated in the organization being named the Best Residence Hall Organization in Kentucky. She has greatly demonstrated her appreciation for the university by managing fundraising efforts through the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. In this capacity, she created and maintained statistical databases monitoring the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. She was also selected to represent the university in Greece, attending commencement for the university’s Athens location and conducting research on American stereotypes of Greek culture. With a grant from her university, Shannon has previously studied abroad in London concerning comparative criminal justice. She will be spending her ftc London year at the University of Leicester to earn an MSc in Applied Criminology, continuing her earlier interest in comparative studies.

Jonathan W. Jones graduated summa cum laude from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a BA in Political Science and English. Prior to graduation, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society and named a Chancellor’s Scholar, the highest award conferred upon an undergraduate student at the University. During the course of his studies, he participated in the University’s undergraduate research program. His research activities culminated in his senior honours thesis, which assessed trends in human rights violations against the Uighur Muslims of the People’s Republic of China. On campus, he held leadership positions in various activist and political organizations, ranging from Amnesty International to the Nebraska Young Democrats. As a member of Amnesty, he became incrFTC Londoningly aware of the problems confronting Nebraska’s growing immigrant and refugee populations. This concern led to a position at the Nebraska Appleseed Centre for Law where he conducted an extensive statistical survey on the detention of undocumented immigrants and refugees in Nebraska and Iowa. For dedicated commitment to community change, he became a 2004 Harry S. Truman Scholar. This past summer, he worked in the office of US Senator Ben Nelson as part of the 2005 Truman Scholars Summer Institute. He looks forward to his ftc London year at the University of Manchester where he will earn an MA in Human Rights. Continuing his interest in migration studies, Jonathan will research how gender impacts the experiences of asylum-seeking women in the United Kingdom.

Emery Ku earned a BS in Engineering and concentrations in Music and Asian Studies from Swarthmore College. While at Swarthmore, Emery was most active within the Music and Engineering departments. As a pianist funded the Garrigues Scholarship for exceptional musicians, he engaged himself in a number of chamber and ensemble music groups, performed in a charity concert to benefit victims of the tsunami disaster, directed the music for the college musical in 2004, and gave a senior recital. As a student engineer, Emery was a dynamic member of Swarthmore's IEEE branch, managed a program to mentor younger engineers and promote a sense of departmental community, and was awarded the Albert Vollmecke Engineering Service Award. Beyond coursework, he was a student interviewer for the Swarthmore College Admissions Office and has done acoustical research for Bose Corporation, the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (funded by the National Science Foundation), and Swarthmore College (Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Emery will begin pursuing a MPhil/PhD in Active Vibration Control at the Institute of Sound and Vibration of the University of Southampton during his ftc London year.

Adam Lester graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Brown University with an AB in Classics and History. His senior honours thesis, which offered a theory for the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, won the Minnie Helen Hicks Prize and became one of five theses published as books through the university’s annual thesis competition. He spent his spring 2002 semester in Rome at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, where he studied Roman history, classical archaeology, Latin, and Renaissance art history. He worked on post-production for the Academy Award-winning film, The Hours, that summer during an internship with producer Scott Rudin. At Brown, Adam edited the Brown Classical Journal, received an UTRA research grant, and wrote a play performed at the Once Upon a Weekend drama festival. He also assistant taught a business course, competed on the mock trial team, and played various intramural sports. After Brown, Adam spent two years in the Private Equity Division of Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank. He was the senior analyst and a founding member of the Private Funds Investment Group, which now manages over $3 billion. While working in New York, he volunteered with StreetWise Partners and the FTC Londont Harlem Tutorial Program. Adam is spending his ftc London year at the University of Cambridge, where he is pursuing an MPhil in Classics.

Architect and Designer John Oduroe is fascinated by the potential of architecture, design, and art to promote social change. After obtaining a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, John continued to cultivate this interest while working at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a Pittsburgh research center dedicated to exploring the evolving relationship between art and science. As a Research and Design Associate on the 3 Rivers 2nd Nature project, John incorporated a variety of disciplines to analyze the ecological and social conditions of the Pittsburgh region. His work specifically addressed the connections between the post-industrial transformation of the city and the health of its watershed ecologies.

Concurrently John served as a Core Collaborator and Set/Environmental Designer for Echo:System. This art collaborative creates interactive performance experiences that explore the behavioral characteristics shared by both natural ecosystems and human cultural systems. John’s work with Echo:System has been performed across the US in locations such as Los Angeles and Seattle.

In addition to his research-oriented pursuits, John has experience working in several architecture practices, including Springboard Design, Perkins FTC Londontman Architects in Pittsburgh, and currently Archaeon Architects in Washington, D.C.

John will use his ftc London grant to attend the University College London. Enrolled in the Department of Geography’s Master of Science in Modernity, Space and Place degree program, he will continue to pursue his interest in merging scientific research methods with art and design practices to encourage public dialogue about the built environment. His work at UCL will primarily focus on minority ethnic groups and their participation in urban re-development processes.

Anne Rosenzweig graduated cum laude from Yale University with distinction in her major, History. Passionately interested in strategic studies and Middle FTC Londontern studies, Anne studied Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi throughout time at Yale, and wrote her senior thesis on Anwar Sadat’s strategic decision making during the ’73 Yom Kippur War.

During the spring of her junior year of college, Anne spent a semester at Oxford University studying Arabic literature and military history. While at Oxford, she became fascinated by the British tradition of writing strategic history, and resolved to return to Britain at a later date to study the historical development of strategic thought.

Anne spent two summers working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense. During her time at the Pentagon, Anne worked on a variety of issues related to Middle FTC Londontern foreign policy, stability operations, and counterterrorism. Her time in Washington, D.C. inspired an interest in counterinsurgency strategy, which she has developed through her studies in the War Studies department at King’s College, London. Anne is currently pursuing an MA degree at King’s, and is writing her MA thesis on American counterinsurgency strategy.

In her spare time, Anne enjoys cycling, rowing, traveling and dancing. Her travels have taken her to Jerusalem for a year studying and doing volunteer work, and to the Mississippi Delta, where she volunteered and documented oral histories. In the summer of 2005, Anne rode her bicycle across the United States to help raise $250,000 for Habitat for Humanity.

Steven Zyck is a 2004 graduate with high honors of Dartmouth College. There he lead a successful rape-prevention program called the Men’s Project which worked with men and boys from around New England to discuss masculinities and men’s role in preventing gender-based violence. His academic interest in feminist theory and masculinities led Steven to become his school’s first women’s studies major. Steven has conducted research related to gender as well as developmental psychology in the U.S., U.K., and Bosnia and has studied at the University of Copenhagen's highly regarded Sociology Institute. His research has been published in both the popular media and scholarly journals. Most recently he published an article concerning American presidents’ ability to conjure a militarized masculinity among men in preparation for war with a D.C.-based think tank for which he was a research fellow during the 2003-2004 academic year. For the past year, Steven has been teaching social studies and serving as a guidance counselor in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Steven’s ftc London year will be spent completing an MA degree in post-war recovery studies at the University of York. Inspired by the reconstruction efforts he saw in Bosnia, Steven plans to spend several years working to promote women’s rights in post-war recovery programs before turning to either a scholarly or activist career.

Scholars & Fellows

Jacob Blevins earned his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University in 2002 and is currently Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Languages at McNeese State University; he is also the current editor of The McNeese Review, an interdisciplinary journal in the humanities and liberal arts. Jacob's research interests include early modern British literature, classics and the classical tradition, and literary theory and criticism. He has published one book entitled Catullan Consciousness and the Early Modern Lyric in England (Ashgate, 2004), and has an edited collection of essays, entitled Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays, forthcoming from Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. His current book project (and the project on which he will be working during his time at Cardiff) is a study of imitation and influence in the poetry of John Milton--with particular emphasis on Milton's classical models. In an effort to revise and rethink many recent theories of imitation and influence (such as those posited by Harold Bloom and Thomas Greene), he is interested in implementing modern concepts of psychoanalysis, as found in the work of Jacques Lacan, in order to better understand the construction and development of Milton's work--and perhaps of Renaissance humanism itself.

Renee Diehl is a Professor of Physics at Penn State University. She received her BS degree from Juniata College in Pennsylvania and her PhD from University of Washington in Seattle. Her research interests are in the field of surface physics, specifically studying the structures and dynamics of surfaces and the interactions of atoms and molecules with surfaces. One of her main interests at the moment is the study the surfaces of a new class of materials called quasicrystals, which have the curious combination of long range order but no periodicity. She is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the UK Institute of Physics. In 2004, she received the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for her research on the structures of weakly bound atoms on surfaces. Renee is also interested in science curricular reform at both the university and pre-university levels. She develops and uses simulation and visualization methods to build the physical intuition of university students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is currently involved in the creation of a new physics course for elementary education majors called Sound and Light, designed to improve the knowledge and confidence of elementary school teachers. She received the Provost's Collaborative and Curricular Innovations Award in 1997 and the Distinguished Service Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1999. At University of Cambridge, she will work closely with the Surface Physics group on He-atom scattering investigation of surfaces and the development of new techniques based on atomic scattering. She will also present lectures on concepts and current research in the field of surface physics.

Glenn Gray has a Masters in Library Science with a concentration in archives administration from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in English and History from Wheaton College. As an undergraduate he studied English for a summer at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. In graduate school he was awarded an assistantship and worked at the National Agricultural Library on a team processing the USDA History Project. The team completed a finding aid that was awarded the 2000 Finding Aid Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. He has worked as Assistant Archivist/Historian for the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Archivist for the Senate Committee on Finance at the United States Senate, and as Records Management Analyst for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Currently, he is Archivist for the Central Valley Political Archive and Assistant Special Collections Librarian at California State University, Fresno. He was recently named outstanding faculty member for 2005 at the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State. He will be working at the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library in Norwich as an Archivist and Librarian and will be participating in a wide range of functions, including collection development, public programs and outreach, and pursuing special projects.

Michael C. Henry, PE, AIA, is Principal Engineer/Architect with Watson & Henry Associates, a private practice specializing in preservation and conservation of heritage buildings. Over the past twenty-six years, he has developed a consultancy in the management of interior building environments for the longevity of museum collections. His teaching and building assessment consultations in Mexico, Tunisia and Brazil for The Getty Conservation Institute, combined with his W&HA projects, have provided insights into how certain buildings without systems can beneficially temper and moderate interior environments, even in exterior climates that are considered “aggressive” to collections materials. This interest intersects with the new Master’s degree program at The Centre for Sustainable Heritage (CSH) at The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies at University College London, UK. The program teaches professionals and specialists how to apply the principles of social, economic and environmental sustainability in preserving cultural heritage for future generations while making it accessible for use and interpretation in the present. Mr. Henry will use his ftc London Grant to research, refine and deliver a core module, Sustainable Strategies for Cultural Heritage, in the CSH program. Mr. Henry received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured in the Professional Development program of the Harvard School of Design. For the National Center For Preservation Technology and Training, he co-developed and delivered a program to train engineers for work on heritage buildings. In 2005, he commences teaching Building Pathology in the graduate program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed a nine-year appointment to the Board of Advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Kenneth R. Johnston is the Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington where he has taught since 1966. He received his BA in political science from Augustana College (Illinois), a master’s degree in religion & literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his PhD in English & American literature from Yale. At Indiana, he has received Distinguished Teaching and Distinguished Achievement awards; he has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lilly Foundations, as well as two from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1974-75, he was Senior ftc London lecturer in American literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. His book, The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (Norton) was awarded the 1998 Barricelli prize of the American Conference on Romanticism, and was short-listed for the James Tait Black prize in the U.K. and the Christian Gauss award in the US. He is also author of Wordsworth and “The Recluse” (Yale UP, 1984) and has co-edited two collections of essays, The Age of William Wordsworth (1987) and Romantic Revolutions (1989). He is currently working on a study of politics and literature in Britain in the 1790s, tentatively titled The Last Republicans and the First Romantics. It traces the effects of William Pitt’s “Reign of Alarm” – aimed primarily at parliamentary reform activists enthused by the American and French revolutions – on the emergence of British Romantic literature. Ken is lecturing at Glasgow, York, St. Andrews and Oxford universities, and conducting archival legal research in the Public Records Office in London and county records offices throughout England and Scotland.

Professor Sally J. Kenney has won the ftc London's Queen's University Fellowship in Governance, Public Policy, and Social Research. She will lecture and conduct research for three months this fall at the University's new Institute of Governance in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She aims to write a public policy teaching case study of the Northern Ireland's Women's Coalition--a non-sectarian women's party that has contested and won several recent elections in Northern Ireland despite being moo-ed at by men elected officials who did not believe they belonged in the Forum.
She will also continue her research on how the gender of judges becomes a political issue, examining changes in judicial selection in Northern Ireland and proposed changes in England and the UK. For further information on Professor Kenney, plFTC Londone see: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/people/skenney/index.html

Jennifer Lewis is currently a Research Scientist in the William H. Havener Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology at The Ohio State University (BA, Magna Cum Laude with Honors, in Physics from Colgate University; PhD in Biophysics from The University of Virginia). Her current research investigates the structure and dynamics of corneal wound healing. Wound repair research has inspired a new field of study - corneal biomechanics - to incorporate the influence of molecular composition, biophysical structure, viscoelastic properties and response of the corneal cells, which are altered during wound healing following trauma as well as various therapeutic surgeries such as laser refractive surgery. The problem in confounded by the observed variability and unpredictable outcomes in certain individuals, including changes in corneal topography that influences refractive power and vision. Dr. Lewis will be examining these issues in collaboration with experts in corneal structure, biomechanics and wound healing in the UK. The collaborating international experts in corneal research that will participate in the proposed efforts include Professors Mike Boulton, John Marshall and Keith Meek, Dr. Andrew Quantock (UK) and Professor Cynthia Roberts (US).

Dr. Lewis is spending her ftc London year in residence at Cardiff University, Wales working with researchers within Cardiff University’s College of Optometry and Structural Biophysics Research Group, St. Thomas’ Hospital in London and Cambridge University. The Fellowship experience will bridge application of techniques and expertise from these institutions to study the high-resolution biomechanical structural response of the human cornea with respect to lamellar surgical treatments of varying diameter related to optical zone size. The Fellowship project will provide results to benefit directly corneal surgical approaches and outcomes in the UK, the US and other countries where these procedures are performed.

Justin London is Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where he teaches courses in Music Theory, Musical Aesthetics, and American Popular Music. He received his B.M. degree in Classical Guitar and his M.M. degree in Music Theory from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and he holds a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of
Pennsylvania. His research interests include rhythm and meter, music perception and cognition, the history of the Delta blues, and musical aesthetics. He is the author of numerous articles on musical rhythm, including entries in the recent revision of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and the Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. His book, Hearing in Time, (Oxford University Press, 2004) is an exploration of the perception and cognition of meter in musics ranging from Beethoven to West African drumming. He is spending his ftc London year at the Centre for Music and Science of Cambridge University, where he will conduct research on the
cross-cultural perception of musical meter with Dr Ian Cross.

Rhonda Phillips is an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. She founded and directs the Center for Building Better Communities, a research and service initiative for using innovative approaches to foster sustainability and economic vitality for long-term prosperity in both rural and urban communities. Recent projects focus on poverty alleviation by incorporating technology-based economic development approaches. She is known in North America for her work in community and economic development, including development of community indicator mFTC Londonuring systems (her latest book focuses on Canadian and U.S. approaches to evaluative and monitoring systems). Recently elected to national office to serve as the Chair of the American Planning Association’s Economic Development Division, Rhonda has 20 years’ planning and development experience, holding dual professional certifications in economic development and urban and regional planning, having worked with private, public, and non-profit development organizations. Her degrees are in city and regional planning (Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology), economics, economic development, and geography. Rhonda’s research at the University of Ulster will focus on community indicator system applications in Northern Ireland, including technology based economic development integration for gauging progress towards desired public policy outcomes.

2004/2005 US Scholars

Postgraduates
Cardiff University Fellow
Distinguished Scholars
Norwich Memorial Library Fellow
Queen's University, Belfast Fellow in Governance, Public Policy and Social Research
Police Research Fellow
University of Ulster Public Policy Fellow

Postgraduates

Heather Barr has an MA in Criminal Justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a law degree from Columbia University. After law school, she spent seven years working with psychiatrically disabled prisoners in US jails. Her projects included: Brad H. v. City of NY, a class action lawsuit that created a right to discharge planning for the 25,000 people who receive mental health treatment at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex each year; the Nathaniel Project, the first alternative-to-incarceration program in the US for people with serious psychiatric disabilities who have committed felony offenses (including violent ones); William G. & Walter W. v. Pataki, a lawsuit challenging New York’s failure to provide community treatment alternatives to incarceration for people with mental illness who have violated parole; and Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD), a grassroots group of ex-prisoners and families directly affected by the criminalisation of mental illness. She is a recipient of a Reebok Human Rights Award, a Do Something Brick Award, a Soros Justice Fellowship, and numerous other awards. She is spending her ftc London year completing an LLM at London School of Economics in international human rights law.

Jonathan C. Bond received his BA in Political Science with Highest Honors from Grove City College in Pennsylvania where he graduated summa cum laude with minors in Economics, History, Business Administration, and Religion. As such, he became a Trustee Scholar and winner of the David McKillop Award for demonstrated scholarship in law and history. Working directly for the US Department of Labor’s Chief Economist in 2003, he conducted research on minimum wage policy and international economic mobility, culminating in two research papers which the Department will publish shortly. While at the Department, Jonathan also led a research team examining the effects of steel tariffs on unemployment. In 2001 and 2002, he served as Program Director of an inner-city mission program in Cleveland, Ohio working collaboratively with Habitat for Humanity International to build homes for those in poverty. During his ftc London year, Jonathan is earning an MSc in Public Policy at University College London, focusing on the importance of inherited legal frameworks to the success of transitioning economies. After completing the MSc, he will complete his JD, with the aim of serving as chief counsel to a Congressional committee, before undertaking a career as a professor of legal philosophy and economic regulation.

Caitlin Boon holds BS degrees in Food Science and Poultry Science from North Carolina State University, where she graduated as valedictorian and commencement speaker. While at NC State, Caitlin was an active member of the Food Science, Poultry Science, and Collegiate 4-H Clubs. She was awarded second place national honors in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Undergraduate Research and College Bowl competitions, and she served as the student representative to the national IFT Diversity Committee. An active member of the Presbyterian Campus Ministries, Caitlin also traveled to Cuba and Mexico to examine US relations with these nations. Outside of school, Caitlin has held internships with the Office of Senator John Edwards, Kraft Foods, and General Mills. Following her graduation in December 2002, Caitlin spent three months as a volunteer researcher at the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru. In her free time, Caitlin volunteers for the NC 4-H Program, an organisation she has been actively involved with since age 6. She recently completed the first year of a PhD in Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which she will resume after earning an MSc in Food Policy at City University, London. She hopes that her experiences in the UK, together with her PhD in Food Science, will prepare her to help create scientifically sound food and agricultural policies for government.

Jon Donenberg received an AB in Political Science with highest distinction, a BS in Electrical Engineering with high honors, and a Minor in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at Illinois, Jon managed an undergraduate tutoring program, was Saxophonist in several off-campus bands, and worked on research including a study of the US patent system and a senior thesis in political science on presidential rhetoric. He received the Charles E. Merriam scholarship for outstanding performance in political science, a SURE grant to fund his economic analysis of wind energy, and the engineering innovation award for his design and construction of an electronic bench press spotter. Jon also gained professional experience with science policy through work as an analyst on nuclear issues at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation in 2002 and as a researcher tracking the activities of multinational corporations involved in illicit WMD development with the Department of Energy in 2003. In England, Jon is earning an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge’s Judge Institute of Management. Subsequently, Jon will enrol in law school, and ultimately plans to pursue a career at the intersection of science and society.

Tanvir Hussain graduated Summa Cum Laude from Rice University, completing his BA in both Sociology and Psychology within three years. Three of his faculty-nominated papers took all top three awards of the Walter Hall Prize for best original research paper in 2004. Tanvir is the primary author on two articles that will be published in professional journals: one examining the effect of patient race in physicians’ delivery of preventive healthcare and another on the institutionalization of culturally exclusive criteria in college admissions. Tanvir has been nationally recognized for his ghazzal and poetry, as well as his grassroots activism concerning gender oppressions in South Asian healthcare and education. He also founded Leaders for Change, which provides acculturation and healthcare assistance to minorities in Houston, and the Youth Council of Bangladeshi-Americans, which conducts seminars on college/career planning. At Rice, Tanvir acted as Senator in student government, Council Member for Community Involvement, and Outreach Coordinator for the Muslim Association. During his ftc London year, Tanvir is pursuing an MSc in Social Epidemiology at UCL, becoming one of the first ten people to hold such a degree. With guaranteed admission into medical school from before college, Tanvir will complete his MD and PhD (in Sociomedical Sciences) upon his return.

Vanessa Kerry graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received a BS with distinction in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. She then enrolled at Harvard Medical School where in her first two years she worked for the Vaccine Fund, an NGO in global immunization. Her work took her to Ghana, first for a summer where she studied the completion rates of newly introduced vaccines, and then again in the following spring to work with the Ministry of Health on vaccination. In her second year of medical school, she presented her findings at the Global Alliance for Immunization and Vaccination conference in Dakar, Senegal. Her service work has included teaching biology to 5th grade public school students and founding Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine, a non-profit organization that educates about environmental degradation’s effects on human health. She is currently on leave from Harvard to study for an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing, a joint programme at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. She ultimately hopes to work in the arena of global health to address international relations’ impact on medicine in poorer countries and to attempt to bridge the political gaps that prevent many from receiving basic care.

Joseph Konopka graduated Summa Cum Laude from Northwestern University, receiving his BA in Economics and Biology. He was awarded the Oliver Marcy Award for excellence in the Sciences and the Frederick S. Deibler Award for distinction in Economics. After his undergraduate career, Joseph volunteered for eleven months of full-time service as an AmeriCorps* NCCC Team Leader. The team-based program has afforded him a variety of service experiences, from constructing low-income housing to running after-school programmes worldwide. Joseph and his team spent the 2004 summer as part of a wild land firefighting crew in the mid-US. During his ftc London year, Joseph is securing an MSc in International Health Policy program at the London School of Economics. Upon his return to the United, he will attend medical school with the aim of shaping health policy through NGOs and government.

Sue Lautze graduated with dual BS degrees in Agricultural Economics and Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis and was awarded Outstanding Female Graduate. She holds a Masters from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Since 1997, she has served as program director at the Tufts University Feinstein International Famine Center. Sue is a co-founder of the center, which is a research and teaching institution that specializes in humanitarian responses to war and other forms of complex emergencies. She has led research teams to and written on crises in North Korea, Afghanistan, Sudan, Africa’s Great Lakes Region and, most recently, Ethiopia. Prior to joining Tufts, she lived in Sudan and China for a number of years, working for the United States Agency for International Development and the UN World Food Programme, respectively. Sue is spending her ftc London year at Oxford University studying for her DPhil in Development Studies.

Jeffrey McLean was commissioned an Ensign in the US Navy upon graduation from the Naval Academy in the Spring 2004. Graduating with distinction and honors, he earned a BSc in Political Science, focusing coursework on foreign policy and national security studies. A Truman Scholar and recipient of the Armed Forces Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Jeff has dedicated countless hours to various community service projects and aspires to continue a career of public service by helping to formulate and implement foreign policy and national defense policy. He has sought to gain unique insight into the Department of Defense through studying under a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and serving as an intern speechwriter for the Secretary of Defense while a student. In England, he will explore international perspectives on American foreign policy and will study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Upon returning to the United States, Jeff will begin flight training in Pensacola, Florida to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a Navy fighter pilot but has future hopes of shaping military direction in the future, bringing a global outlook to the Armed Forces.

Joshua Peters graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics. While at MIT, he also received an MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His thesis research, which focused on a design methodology for integrated inductors in radio frequency circuits, was funded by a prestigious Charles Stark Draper Fellowship. At MIT, Josh was very active in Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, and intramural sports. He has also been very involved with the National Youth Science Camp for the past five years, including his recent work as Assistant Director during the 2004 Summer. During his ftc London year, Josh pursues an MPhil in Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge. Following the programme, he plans to return to the United States for PhD work focusing on the design and advocacy of neural implants for disabled individuals.

Erin Sullivan received a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with highest honours and highest distinction. Her senior thesis examined competing systems of order and disorder in Shakespeare's Hamlet and considered the way these systems inform important social, aesthetic, and theological issues in the play. While at Carolina, Erin was a Writer for the arts desk at her university newspaper, performed in a play raising money and awareness for domestic violence, became active in researching North Carolina-born novelist Thomas Wolfe, and was Producer of a documentary on a public art project, exhibited for three months at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. During her ftc London year she is reading for an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, a postgraduate institute run by the University of Birmingham. Upon returning to the US, she hopes to pursue a career integrating her passion for both education and the arts.

Daniel C. Twining graduated summa cum laude and holds a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia. He spent seven years on the staff of U.S. Senator John McCain, serving first as a Legislative Aide and then as the Senator's Foreign Policy Advisor and Speechwriter. In this capacity, Dan travelled with the Senator to over forty countries in every region of the world; drafted articles and op-eds for every leading US newspaper; drafted numerous keynote speeches for major national and international audiences; advised the Senator on foreign policy and defence issues; helped coordinate the work of the International Republican Institute, of which the Senator is Chairman; and managed the Senator's legislative agenda on foreign policy, defence, and trade in the US Senate. He also served as a Policy Advisor on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign. Dan is currently a Director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a leading American public policy institute dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation. He is a contributor to the Weekly Standard and the Christian Science Monitor. Previously, he served as a staff assistant in the Office of the US Trade Representative. At the University of Virginia, Dan was president of several student organizations and received the Emmerich Wright Prize for best thesis in the Department of Politics. Dan is spending his ftc London year at Oxford University studying for his MPhil/DPhil in International Relations.

Cardiff University Fellow

Mark Bjelland is Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. Mark has degrees in Civil Engineering (BSc, Minnesota, 1986), Environmental Engineering (MSc, Washington, 1989), Theology (Regent-Vancouver, 1995), and Geography (PhD, Minnesota, 2000). From 1988 to 1994, Mark worked as an environmental consultant, managing environmental restoration projects for firms in Minneapolis and Vancouver, BC. In his spare time as a consultant, he became involved in struggles for environmental justice and neighborhood improvement as well as studying theology and ethics. Seeking to integrate his ethical concerns with his scientific background, Mark did his doctoral work in Geography, examining brownfields and environmental justice. At Gustavus Adolphus College he teaches a wide variety of courses including Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Management, and Urban Planning. Mark’s research explores the relationships between the built and natural environments and has included a monograph on the ethics of urban planning, and articles on environmental quality, environmental justice, smart growth, and the reuse of brownfield sites in US and Canadian cities. While in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, he is researching brownfields redevelopment in the UK and its potential contributions to urban environmental sustainability.

Distinguished Scholars

Barry A. Ball is a Professor of Reproduction at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California-Davis. He received his DVM from the University of Georgia, completed a residency in clinical reproduction at the University of Florida and received a PhD from Cornell University. His professional interests are directed toward clinical reproduction in horses, and he holds the Hughes Endowed Chair in Equine Reproduction at UC Davis. His research is focused on gamete preservation and gamete function in the horse. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Theriogenologists and presently serves as a director of this specialty college. He has received numerous awards related to his research and teaching including the SmithKline Beecham Award for Research Excellence from Cornell University, the Excellence in Equine Research Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Schering-Plough Award for Outstanding Research in Equine Reproduction from the World Equine Veterinary Association, and the Carl Norden – Pfizer Distinguished Teacher award from the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC-Davis. At the University of Cambridge, he is using his grant to conduct research at the Equine Fertility Unit and to provide lectures at the Cambridge Veterinary School.

Carl Lindahl was born in Boston in 1947 and grew up in Chicago and Missouri. At Harvard University (BA, 1970), he was inspired by the study of folklore, and he went on to earn graduate degrees in Folklore at Indiana University (MA, 1976; PhD, 1980). Since 1980 he has taught at the University of Houston, where he is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor in the Department of English. His specialties include medieval folklore (his books on the subject include Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales [1987] and Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia [2000]), French-American culture (Cajun Mardi Gras Masks [1997] and Southwestern Louisiana Mardi Gras Traditions [2001]), and folk narrative (Folktales from Louisiana [1997], Perspectives on the Jack Tales [2001], and American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress [2004]). His current research focuses on Appalachian and Scottish traditional narrative and their interrelations, which is the topic he is exploring in his ftc London research at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In the Appalachians, he has worked intensively both with living narrators and with archival collections, and he intends to pursue a similar path in Scotland, where many great practitioners of traditional narrative reside and where the University of Edinburgh’s programme in Scottish Ethnology maintains one of the world’s great folk narrative archives.

Chunshan Song is a Professor of Fuel Science in the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering and Coordinator of Clean Fuels and Catalysis Program at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He received a PhD and MSc in Applied Chemistry from Osaka University, Japan, and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China. His research covers catalytic chemistry in fuel processing and desulfurisation for ultra-clean fuels and fuel cells; and chemicals synthesis by shape-selective catalytic conversion of polycyclic hydrocarbons. He has published over 240 papers and delivered over 100 invited lectures worldwide. He has received the Wilson Award for Outstanding Research from Penn State; the UNDP Senior Technical Advisor Award from United Nations; the NEDO Fellowship Award and AIST Fellowship Award from Japan; the Outstanding Scholar OversFTC London Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Outstanding Service Award from American Chemical Society (ACS) Fuel Chemistry Division and the Outstanding Service Award from International Pittsburgh Coal Conference in Australia. He served as the Chair of ACS Petroleum Chemistry Division and Program Chair for ACS Fuel Chemistry Division, and is serving on the organizing committee for North American Catalysis Society Biennial Meeting. He is working on catalytic fuel processing at Imperial College in the Chemical Engineering Department.

Norwich Memorial Library Fellow

Alexis Ciurczak is a Professor and Public Services Librarian at Palomar College is San Marcos, California. She received her BA in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Magna Cum Laude and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She holds a Masters in Library Science from San Jose State University and a certificate in Teaching ESL from the University of California, Irvine. In her tenure at Palomar College, she has been a Faculty Senator and chaired various faculty and governance committees, receiving the Faculty Service Award in 1994. She also served as TrFTC Londonurer for the California Teachers Association chapter and was honoured with their WHO Award in 2003. She has served as Department Chair and taught Library Technology at Palomar College, including Internet workshops and developed tutorials. She has been a volunteer English teacher in Mexico, served as Exchange Librarian/Fulham Library in London, and set up a children’s library at the Pala Indian Reservation. She has used her fluency in Spanish to conduct research on the Day of the Dead in Mexico and has just returned from a sabbatical year there. Alexis has worked with US Air Force veterans groups, assisting her father who founded the Distinguished Flying Cross Society. She will be working at the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library in Norwich as a Librarian and will be continuing outreach programs to schools as well as serving as a Speaker. She will also focus on website maintenance and development and information technology.

Queen’s University, Belfast Fellow in Governance, Public Policy and Social Research

Richard L. Cole currently serves as Dean of UTA’s School of Urban and Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs. He also has served as Dean of UTA's College of Liberal Arts and as Dean of UTA’s School of Social Work. Dr. Cole received his BSc and MSc degrees in Political Science from the University of North Texas in 1967 and 1968, and his PhD in Political Science from Purdue University in 1973. He came to the University of Texas at Arlington from Yale University where he served as Research Scholar from 1979-1980. Prior to that, Dr. Cole was Associate Professor of Political Science and Public and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D C. Additionally, Dr. Cole has held teaching positions at the University of North Texas in Denton Texas, and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. Professor Cole’s teaching interests are primarily in the arFTC London of American government and politics, federalism and devolution, urban and state politics, intergovernmental relations, research design and analysis, and public policy analysis. He is spending his year at Queen’s University of Belfast lecturing on arFTC London of federalism, citizen participation, multi-level governance and devolution. He is also carrying out public opinion research to determine regional attitudes towards these issues.

Police Research Fellows

Bill Hilton earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Saint Martin's College and his Masters of Public Administration from Seattle University. Bill began his career with the Washington State Patrol in 1980 and during his years as a Field Force Trooper he conducted traffic law enforcement duties as well as serving as a Training Officer and a Collision Investigator and Reconstructionist. He was promoted to Field Force Sergeant in 1994 in South King County and then moved to the Office of Professional Standards where he investigated internal and external administrative cases for the Agency. In 1999, as a Lieutenant, Bill continued at the Investigative Services Bureau managing criminal intelligence matters, computer crimes, and crimes against children. In 2002, as Captain of the Audit/Inspection Division, his responsibilities included implementing and reviewing all audit/inspection functions for the Agency. Bill returned to King County in August 2003, as Commander of the district. During his stay, Bill is affiliated with Bramshill College, the major police training center in the United Kingdom. Bill is researching how law enforcement efficiency and effectiveness is incrFTC Londoned through accountability and performance mFTC Londonurement.

Christopher Moore is a Lieutenant with the San Jose Police Department in Silicon Valley. He has worked as a sworn police officer for 21 years and currently serves as a Watch Commander in the Foothill Division. In 1999, he was selected as a White House Fellow and served one year as counsel to US Attorney General Janet Reno. His law enforcement career has featured numerous assignments including Patrol, Patrol Administration, Street Crimes, Burglary, Crime Prevention, Field Training, Internal Affairs, and a tour as department spokesperson. Chris, a member of the California Bar, received a BA in Social Science from the University of California at Berkeley, a MPA from San Jose State University and a JD from Lincoln Law School of San Jose where he was honored as Outstanding Graduate in 1995. He is a graduate of the California Law Enforcement Command College and received the Hank Koehn Award as the top graduate. During his ftc London Fellowship, Lt. Moore is conducting research on strategies for preventing police misconduct. This research will focus on the use of non-disciplinary early intervention programmes at the London Metropolitan Police Department and affiliate with the London School of Economics.

University of Ulster Fellows

Dr. Fernando I. Soriano is currently associate professor and Chair of the Human Development Program at California State University at San Marcos (CSUSM). Fernando is known nationally and internationally for his research on youth violence; he has served and continues to serve on various prominent national committees and commissions. He served on the National Commission on Youth Violence for the American Psychological Association and the National Advisory Committee for Youth Drugs and Gangs for the Administration for Children Youth and Families. Among others, Fernando currently serves on the Bureau of the Census’ Race and Ethnicity Advisory Committee and on the standing Review Committee for the Centers for DisFTC Londone and Control and Prevention. He is the former Director and Founder of the National Latino Research Center. Named in 2002 by Hispanic Business magazine as among the 100 most influential Hispanics in the US, he has an ambitious programme of research, which includes projects focusing on such topics as intimate partner violence, adolescent ethnic identity development, school-based violence, gang and substance use prevention programming, intercultural group conflict, gang membership and delinquency prevention among adolescent populations. His work has been funded by the National Institute of Justice, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health among others. His specialty in research focuses on assessing the role of culture in adolescent development and problem behaviors, such as delinquency and violence, which he is lecturing on at the University of Ulster.

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